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“I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it. ”
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“The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.”
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“My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions, expand our sympathies in directions we may not anticipate and may not even wish.”
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“You've got to have something to eat, and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.”
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“The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're looking at visual objects, I think our eyes are obviously directed outward, so there's not as much reflective time. And it's the reflectiveness and the spiritual inwardness about reading that appeals to me.”
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Q & A with Brian Francis Heffron - Colorado Mandala
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April 20, 2013 to May 5, 2013
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